US/Department/Health and Human Services

US/Department/Health and Human Services
Motto	Improving the health, safety, and well-being of America
Predecessor	•  Federal Security Agency •  United States Department of Health Education and Welfare
Formation	May 4, 1980
Parent organization	US
Headquarters	Hubert H. Humphrey Building,  Washington D.C.
Leader	United States Secretary of Health and Human Services
Subgroups	•  National Institute on Drug Abuse •  Public Health Service •  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response •  Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority •  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Legislation •  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation •  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration •  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs •  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Financial Resources •  Office of the Inspector General •  United States Office of Research Integrity •  Administration for Children and Families •  Administration on Aging •  Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services •  Office of the General Counsel
Staff	79,540
Sponsor of	Planned Parenthood
Originally the "Department of Health, Education and Welfare" (HEW), the DHHS is a cabinet-level department of the U.S. federal government in charge of health. Its major subgroups include the FDA, CDC and NIH.

The US Department of Health and Human Services

Timothy DeFoggi

On the 26th August, 2014, Timothy DeFoggi, aged 56, a former acting director of cyber security for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, was convicted of conspiracy to advertise and distribute child pornography, and accessing a computer with intent to view child pornography in connection with his membership in a child pornography website. The US Department of Justice stated that DeFoggi "even suggested meeting one member in person to fulfill their mutual fantasies to violently rape and murder children." Time magazine noted that "It’s unclear if his illegal activity overlapped with his work for the government." Wired magazine reports that DeFoggi worked for the department from 2008 until January 2014. DeFoggi had been using Tor. In 2015 he was sentenced to 25 years in jail.

Planned Parenthood

The department financed Planned Parenthood with $256 million from fiscal years 2016 to 2018, with about two-thirds of that being a part of the Office of Population Affairs’ Family Planning Services program.

 

An event carried out

Event	Location	Description
Crimson Contagion	New York US	An U.S. nationwide exercise in how to handle an influenza pandemic. Held January to August 2019

 

Related Quotation

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Donald Trump/Second presidency	“My opinion generally is that some figures in the Trump administration were kind of chosen as a PR move and that they're not actually in charge of what they're nominally in charge of. "So, like Pete Hegseth, head of the Pentagon, he's kind of a Fox and Friends, you know, he's a TV show host. And the The Deputy Director of the Pentagon, Steve Feinberg of Cerberus Capital, is most likely the person actually running the Pentagon, not Hegseth, in my opinion. "And I think that's true also for, RFK Junior in charge of HHS. I don't really think he's running. He's just kind of this figure that connected with Trump's base, particularly during the Covid era, and made them think reforms would come. And those reforms haven't really come, but he's kind of there to give the impression that things have changed. But the person behind him, the deputy secretary, is Jim O'Neill, who's a career affiliate of Peter Thiel who's also the power behind J.D. Vance and, you know, the man that made Palantir what it is. "And so, you know, I think it's just a way of sort of masking the people that are actually running stuff. And I think that's probably true, too, of Kash Patel and Dan Bongino. They were making the rounds on podcasts and were making these connections and building trust and relationships with the public in Trump's base. But it seems like they're not actually, running anything, in my opinion. They're kind of figureheads in a way, and they're willing figureheads. I would say."”	Whitney Webb	28 July 2025

 

Employees on Wikispooks

Employee	Job	Appointed	End
Gerald Parker	Deputy assistant secretary for preparedness and response
William Steiger	Director of the Office of Global Health Affairs	2001	2009

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